Regenerator.



A. BRUNINGHAUS. REGBNERATOR.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 29,1912.

E Patented ,A1011 7, 19M.

` provements ALFRE) BR'NINGHAUS, DUISBURG-RUHRORT, GERMANY.

REGENERATOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 7, 1914.

Application led November 29, 1912. Serial No. 734,167.

To all whom. it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALFRED BRNING- HAUS, a subject of the German Emperor. residing at Duisburg-Ruhrort, in Germany, have invented certain new and useful Im in Regenerators, of which the following is a specitication.

The object 'of this invention is to provide improved means enabling the advantages of regenerative working, either for preheating air for combustion,- combusti'ble gas, or mixtures of air and combustible gas, to be utilized in connection with furnaces and ovens in which reversal of the direction of the fiame is impracticable or inconvenient.

An embodimentof the invention is shown in the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 being a vertical, longitudinal section of the apparatus, Fig.` 2 a cross-section on the line E-F ot' Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 a section on the line G-H of Fig. 1.

The apparatus shown comprises two horizontally movable regenerator chambers m and In the posit-ion shown in Fig. 1, products of combustion pass from the furnace along the conduit Z, through the chamber mto the discharge conduit n. and thence through the flue o to the chimney, while air or a mixture of air and combustible gas flows in from the conduit p through the chamber g tothe conduit 11,.,and thence through the conduit s to thev furnace.l By moving the chambers to the left, from the position shown in Fig. 1, the chamber 'q can be placed so that products of combustion enter the same 'from the cionduit Z, and pass out at a, while air or a miX ture of air and combustible gas is admitted to the chamber m from the conduit t and then fiows through the conduit ato the conduit s. In this position of the regenerator the connections between the conduits p and fr and the ports in the hambers are sealed by means of suitable pac "nojs a and u, similar packings being provided for closing the open ends of the conduits #and uA in the posit-ion shown in Fig. 1. i i

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is In regenerating apparatus the combination of three stationary induction conduits, three stationary eduction conduits, and two regenerator chambers each having two ports and collectively reciprocatable on a horizonf tal path, whereby each port of each chamber can be 'brought to register with an induction conduit and anf eduction conduit a1terna. tively, one of the induction conduits and one of the educt-ioniconduits being arranged to serve both chambers alternatively.

In witness whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two witnesses.

ALFRED BRUNINGHAUSL [L 8.]

Witnesses Hanan Noren, ALBERT Noren. 

